Think your Social Security Number is safe?
July 7, 2009 § 1 Comment
Yeah, turns out, it’s not really all that difficult to crack. Using your state and date of birth, and a fairly limited number of attempts, your Social Security Number can be guessed better than 10% of the time. With a larger number of attempts (go distributed programming), there’s pretty much no chance you’re going to keep that secret. Good thing you’ve been careful about not handing it out.
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/07/predictingssn/
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/07/us/07numbers.html?_r=1
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/07/social-insecurity-numbers-open-to-hacking.ars
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